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Russia Feared Hitler's Panzer Tanks. But They Might Have Feared Who Led Them Even More.
http://nationalinterest.org/ ^ | 3/18/18

Posted on 03/21/2018 4:10:08 PM PDT by BBell

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To: BBell

Tiger heavy: underpowered, unmaneuverable, massive armor, lethal cannon.

T-34 was an excellent medium tank, better functionally than the M4, though more primitive.

I once read that Americans (and Russians?) most feared the dual-purpose German 88mm gun, but the Germans most feared the Browning .50 heavy machine gun (best non-cannon ever, I opine). Eight fifties in a P-47 was an awesome ground attack weapon - even against tanks on land and destroyers on water.


21 posted on 03/21/2018 5:41:50 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Pontiac

And they are not fat and lazy after 70 years of Stalin-Bad.


22 posted on 03/21/2018 5:43:56 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: colorado tanker

See line by Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra on Russian, British, and American captured German scientists.


23 posted on 03/21/2018 5:46:21 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: colorado tanker

Well decorated.
Similar to Rudel.
Seem to have read of him before.


24 posted on 03/21/2018 5:47:34 PM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: BBell

Jaw dropping


25 posted on 03/21/2018 5:48:28 PM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: BBell

Couldn’t stop reading; this guy was wounded more times than I could count - and he lived to 75. Amazing - thanks for the post.


26 posted on 03/21/2018 5:50:37 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: BBell

Thank you for posting this.

Very informative.


27 posted on 03/21/2018 5:52:03 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: YogicCowboy

It came to my mind too.


28 posted on 03/21/2018 6:20:23 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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I think it was covered on season 2 of Greatest Tank Battles on the Military Channel in an episode about the Baltics.

Might be on streaming now


29 posted on 03/21/2018 6:24:04 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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WOW !! I wonder what Patton thought of him?


30 posted on 03/21/2018 6:39:42 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: BBell

Great post. Thank you.

Apparently, it’s really tough to get promoted in the German Army.

Strachwitz was almost 48 when he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and he was almost 50 when he became a full Colonel.


31 posted on 03/21/2018 6:42:30 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: BBell
This is a good read.


32 posted on 03/21/2018 6:49:18 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: BBell

Great post! I’m a WWII buff but have never heard of him.


33 posted on 03/21/2018 6:50:17 PM PDT by caver
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That was an interesting observation I hadn’t ever thought of. Sometimes Christianity thrives best under oppression. I wonder whether that is where we are headed?


34 posted on 03/21/2018 6:51:59 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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I wonder whether that is where we are headed?

I think we are already there.

Christians are frequently oppressed in the US and Europe.

Christians have been oppressed in the Middle East for over a thousand years.

It is new in the West but not much anywhere else.

35 posted on 03/21/2018 6:58:09 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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“Technologically the U.S looted more from Germany than the U.S.S.R. Way more. Rocketry, Jet engines, Nuclear, encryption, radar, radio, medical.”

What nonsense is this? The USA broke the Germans encryption, ENIGMA. They never broke ours, SIGABA.

We already had radar as did the Brits.

What radio?

What medical?


36 posted on 03/21/2018 7:04:30 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: BBell

Bfl


37 posted on 03/21/2018 7:11:08 PM PDT by alfa6
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To: Henry Hnyellar

Germany never got a decent proximity shell either.


38 posted on 03/21/2018 7:29:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: BBell

White Tiger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGDJ5-dXaI


39 posted on 03/21/2018 7:31:01 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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Rather like a German General Patton. Most of the German officers were aristocrats like this man, professional, well versed, nationalistic, with a general contempt for the riff raff who composed the Nazi hierarchy.
40 posted on 03/21/2018 7:34:38 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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